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Celebrating consecrated life
Page 14 September 2015
www.adelaide.catholic.org.au
The Marist Brothers is a religious order
of teachers founded in 1817 by Marcellin
Champagnat, a newly-ordained priest raised in
France during the French Revolution. Marcellin
and his early recruits responded to the spiritual
and educational damage that the French
Revolution inflicted on young people. Marcellin
was canonised in 1998.
Like today’s Marist Brothers, the early Marist
communities were known for their family spirit,
their love of Mary the Mother of Jesus, their
simple presence to each other and all people.
Then, as now, their goal was to make Jesus
known and loved and to do this through lives of
faithful service and prayer.
The first Marist school opened in LaValla,
France, in 1818 and almost 200 years later is
still in operation. Right up until Marcellin’s death
in 1840, the number of Marist schools began
to increase exponentially. Marcellin’s mission
quickly spread to other countries.
The Brothers arrived in Australia in 1872 and
opened their first school at ‘The Rocks’ in
Sydney. Since that time they have worked
with young people in schools as teachers and
administrators, in retreat houses and camps
for young people and in welfare and aboriginal
ministry.
Today there are 51 schools across Australia
that form Marist Schools Australia and teach
Catholic education in the tradition of Marcellin,
who promoted five pillars of teaching; presence,
hard work, simplicity, family spirit and in the way
of Mary.
Since World War II, Australian Marists have
established ministries in Papua New Guinea,
Bougainville, the Solomon Islands, and more
recently a teachers’ college in East Timor. They
also serve communities in Cambodia, Sri Lanka
and the Philippines.
In South Australia, Sacred Heart College has
been the hub for the Brothers since their arrival
in 1897. It was originally founded in a large
boarding house at Largs Bay. It then moved for a
time to Port Adelaide, before being established
at Somerton Park in 1914.
Marcellin Champagnat’s legacy lives on
Continuing our series celebrating the Year of Consecrated Life, this month we look at the contribution of the
Marist Brothers Order which arrived in Australia in 1872.
Just this year, Sacred Heart
College Middle School, in Mitchell
Park, and Sacred Heart College
Senior School, in Somerton Park,
merged into one school under
the leadership of principal Steve
Byrne. These changes at Sacred
Heart have been typical of the
entire Brothers’ ventures in South
Australia as schools have merged
with other institutions adapting to
the changing patterns of enrolments
and community expectations.
Following the settling of Sacred
Heart College into its present
quarters, the Brothers opened
schools in Alberton, Norwood and
Mount Gambier, and a technical
high school in Thebarton. Marist
Brothers Alberton (1927-1966) was
transferred to the Josephite Order
at the end of 1966 and is now part
of the Mount Carmel complex in
Pennington while the Brothers’
school in Queen Street, Norwood
(1920’s-1950), was transferred to
the Jesuits and formed the basis
of Saint Ignatius College in 1951.
It is now the junior campus of that
college. The traditional blue colour
of the Marists is included in the
St Ignatius College badge as a link
to its Marist history.
Marist Brothers Technical High
School operated successfully for
many years but with declining
enrolments it closed in 1987. The
school buildings and grounds in
George Street, Thebarton, are now
the home of the Catholic Education
Office.
Marist Brothers’ Agricultural College
in Mount Gambier was a boarding
school established in 1931 on local
parish land. It merged with the
Mercy Sisters’ school Mater Christi
College in 1972 to form Tenison
College and then later with the St
Paul’s primary school to become
Tenison Woods College – now one
of the most significant Catholic
educational institutions within the
South-east of the State. In 1967 the
Brothers established St Joseph’s
Middle School in Mitchell Park,
which went on to become Sacred
Heart College Middle School. In
1984, Cardijn College opened in
Noarlunga, with the first principal
being Marist Brother Walter Smith.
Br Walter died as a missionary in
Pakistan in 2006 – the same year
Marcellin’s charism was continued
by one of the newest Catholic
schools in SA – Marcellin Technical
College at Christies Beach.
A Brothers’ community has been
based at Aquinas College, the
Catholic residential College for
University students in North
Adelaide since 2006. The Brothers
aim to provide a mentoring
presence and opportunities
for faith development for these
tertiary students in their care. The
College caters for predominantly
rural students but over a quarter
come from interstate or overseas.
Archbishop Philip Wilson and Port
Pirie Bishop Greg O’Kelly SJ are
frequent visitors to this home of
future community leaders.
Marist Brothers have been based
in South Australia for 118 years. It’s
very special for the Brothers that
the legacy of their founder, Marcellin
Champagnat, still lives on.
TRADITION CONTINUES: Brothers with students at Sacred Heart College in the 1950s.
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